PG&E Fraud: Ravenel Enterprises Pres. Robert LaLonde

Ravenel Enterprises Pres. Robert LaLonde

Robert LaLonde

Senior Basis/Netweaver Consultant/Technical Project Manager

San Antonio, Texas, United States409 connections

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Telesto Group LLC

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About

• Experienced SAP Professional with two decades of full life cycle SAP systems.
• PMP Certification from Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Secret Clearance and Security Plus Certification
• SAP Solution Manager Certification.
• Amazon Technical Architect

Fields of expertise include:
o Project Management, Change Management, Capacity planning
o ECC, ERP, R/3, Retail, Utilities, BI/BW, CRM, SCM, SRM, XI/PI
o SAP Net Weaver, HANA, TDMS, SNC, Unicode, team mentoring
o SAP security concepts, Identity management, Disaster Recovery,
o Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2, Development Leadership
o Solution Manager, UNIX and Windows Shell Scripting
o Amazon EC2, Solution Manager
o Upgrades, large change, Enhancement Package, and Migrations

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Experience

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  Senior Consultant

  Telesto Group LLC

  Sep 2016 - Present5 years 6 months

  United States

  Army and USTRANSCOM projects requiring Secret Clearance and Security Plus
  Solution Manager 7.2 Upgrades and Installations
  HANA installations and copies
  Solution Manager automation, test management, and monitoring, Content Activation on Sybase
  CA Wily Intrascope, SUSE Linux SAP application support in Amazon EC2 Cloud, HANA planning, TDMS demonstration and client education,
  

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  Platinum Consultant

  Dart Container

  Sep 2014 - Aug 20162 years

  Mason, Michigan

  Upgrade, continuing roll-outs for new locations, and ongoing production support
  • Basis Team work load management, Fiori, HANA preparation
  • Team Training, mentoring, knowledge transfer, process documentation
  • HANA Preparation, DB System Migrations, Windows Server, networking/Firewall issues
  • ECC Enhancement Package 7 upgrade/installation, impact management
  • System installation, PI, GRC, ADS, ChaRM installation, Early Watch, CCMS, SLD
  • TDMS standardization, training and…

  Upgrade, continuing roll-outs for new locations, and ongoing production support
  • Basis Team work load management, Fiori, HANA preparation
  • Team Training, mentoring, knowledge transfer, process documentation
  • HANA Preparation, DB System Migrations, Windows Server, networking/Firewall issues
  • ECC Enhancement Package 7 upgrade/installation, impact management
  • System installation, PI, GRC, ADS, ChaRM installation, Early Watch, CCMS, SLD
  • TDMS standardization, training and documentation, Amazon EC2 Certification
  • TDMS HCM, Full Client, Time Slice, Custom Scrambling, and Custom BPL
  

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  Platinum Basis Consultant

  Thomas and Betts

  Mar 2014 - Feb 20151 year

  Greater Memphis Area

  Industry: Electrical Component Manufacture
  o Part-time Remote support basis support for SAP HR system, HCM, ECC 6.0, Oracle on SunOS

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  Project Manager

  Rimini Street

  Jun 2014 - Aug 20143 months

  Pleasanton, CA

  Industry: IT Outsourcing
  o Remote client management for Intellectual Property Migration project, Sharepoint, Salesforce
  o Off Shore and Near Short resource management, project scheduling and controlling

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  Platinum Basis Consultant

  Hanes Brands/SAP America

  Mar 2014 - May 20143 months

  Winston-Salem, NC

  Industry: Retail, Apparel
  o Onsite SAP Basis Platinum support for post Go-live, BW 7.3, performance tuning
  o Solution Manager 7.01–7.1 upgrade planning, PI 7.0 , ECC 6.0, Oracle on HPUX
  o HANA training, BSI Tax Factory

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  Platinum TDMS Consultant

  Coppercone

  Mar 2010 - May 20144 years 3 months

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Industry: Insurance, and others – SAP America
  o Advisory role for start of a project, Technical Project Planning
  o Continuing part time remote support
  o General Technical Strategy, Education, Security, Performance tuning
  o Achieved Solution Manager Change Management Certification
  o Redwood integration and training
  o SAP TDMS on AIX, Solaris, DB2, Oracle, Windows/SQL, EHP6.2, ECC 6.0, HCM

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  Project Management Contractor

  Pacific Gas and Electric Company

  May 2011 - Sep 20132 years 5 months

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Resource and Cost Planning

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  Basis Consultant

  Energen

  2009 - 2009less than a year

  TDMS implementation, operation, and training. SAP technical change management. Standard Basis operational monitoring and maintenance.

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  Senior Technical Consultant

  Chico's

  Oct 2007 - May 20088 months

  o Architecture and process improvement and review
  o TDMS implementation project for master data and partial transaction data replication in an IS-Retail environment

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  Basis Consulting Manager

  St. Jude Medical

  2008 - 2008less than a year

  Project Planning for Maintenance and Improvement of SAP and related ERP infrastructure. Staffing management.

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  Senior Technical Consultant

  McKesson Provider Technologies

  Feb 2007 - Oct 20079 months

  o ECC Divestiture project planning, in a High Tech environment
  o CRM, XI, BI, Portal implementation on latest versions based on NW 2004s
  o Heterogeneous Database Migration

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  CheckFree

  1 year

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    Senior Technical Consultant

    CheckFree

    Oct 2006 - Feb 20075 months

    o Management of Customer expectations, Project planning and execution
    o Oracle migration from 32 bit version 9 to 64 bit 10g
    o Clustering 4.6C on 64 bit
    o Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 on windows 64 bit cluster
    o Change management

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    Basis Consultant

    CheckFree

    2006 - 20071 year

    Technical project planning and implementation for SAP system upgrades. Standard Basis Operations.

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  Senior Technical Consultant

  Adjoined Consulting

  Oct 2006 - Feb 20075 months

  CheckFree Through Adjoined Consulting
  Senior Technical Consultant
  o Oracle migration from 32 bit version 9 to 64 bit 10g
  o Clustering 4.6C on 64 bit
  o Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 on windows 64 bit cluster
  o Change management

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  Senior Technical Consultant

  Kanbay

  Oct 2006 - Feb 20075 months

  CheckFree Through Adjoined Consulting
  Senior Technical Consultant
  o Oracle migration from 32 bit version 9 to 64 bit 10g
  o Clustering 4.6C on 64 bit
  o Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 on windows 64 bit cluster
  o Change management

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  Senior Technical Consultant

  Capgemini

  Oct 2006 - Feb 20075 months

  CheckFree Through Adjoined Consulting
  Senior Technical Consultant
  o Oracle migration from 32 bit version 9 to 64 bit 10g
  o Clustering 4.6C on 64 bit
  o Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 on windows 64 bit cluster
  o Change management

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  SAP Principal Consultant

  Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

  Jun 2006 - Oct 20065 months

  o Management of Customer expectations
  o Project planning and execution of software development, security, and technical infrastructure for project with R3 Enterprise, SAP ERP 2005, XI (Now PI) and BI (Formerly BW).
  o Solution Manager installation, configuration

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  Principal Consultant

  Ciber

  Apr 2005 - Oct 20061 year 7 months

  Principal Consultant
  o Defined and refined WBS
  o Resource, cost, time, estimation and management
  o Management of Customer expectations
  o Project planning and execution of software development, security, and technical infrastructure for project with R3 Enterprise, SAP ERP 2005, CRM 2005 and Campus Management.
  o Applied expertice in Basis, Netweaver, ASAP, PMI, ABAP, Unix

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  SAP Principal Consultant

  Gate Gourmet

  Dec 2005 - Jun 20067 months

  o Resource, cost, time, estimation and management
  o Customer system stabilization in support of FI, HR, R/3 Enterprise go-live and migration to outsourcing facility.

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  SAP Principal Consultant

  Northern Kentucky University

  Sep 2005 - Dec 20054 months

  o Defined and refined WBS, Management of Customer expectations
  o Project planning and execution of software development, security, and technical infrastructure for project with R3 Enterprise, SAP ERP 2005, CRM 2005, Campus Management and Solution Manager in a Higher Education environment

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  Consultant

  Chemtura

  Feb 2005 - Aug 20057 months

  o Technical project leadership on divestiture for project
  o SAP 3.1I installation and hardware migration in an SAP Chemicals environment

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  Independent Consultant

  CSC Consulting

  Feb 2005 - Aug 20057 months

  Chemtura Through CSC and Baer Group
  Independent Consultant
  o Technical project leadership on divestiture for project
  o SAP 3.1I installation and hardware migration in an SAP Chemicals environment

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  Independent Consultant

  Baer Group

  Jan 2005 - Apr 20054 months

  o Provide technical expertise and advice to company divestiture for Crompton
  o Planning, Execution, Closing and Controlling on an SAP 3.1I installation and hardware migration project

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  Basis Manager

  Morris Communications

  Nov 2002 - Jan 20052 years 3 months

  o Project Management, functional/technical team coordination
  o Set standards, budgets, technology direction
  o Provided training and leadership, team mentoring
  o Successful go-lives for SAP BW 3.1, R/3 4.6C with IS-Media, EBP, EP 5 and 6
  o Set Change management standards
  o Employee reviews, hire and fire
  o EBP, BW upgrade planning
  o Shared responsibility for Sarbanes-Oxley security compliance
  o Led Single Sign On and security streamlining projects
  o Product and vendor…

  o Project Management, functional/technical team coordination
  o Set standards, budgets, technology direction
  o Provided training and leadership, team mentoring
  o Successful go-lives for SAP BW 3.1, R/3 4.6C with IS-Media, EBP, EP 5 and 6
  o Set Change management standards
  o Employee reviews, hire and fire
  o EBP, BW upgrade planning
  o Shared responsibility for Sarbanes-Oxley security compliance
  o Led Single Sign On and security streamlining projects
  o Product and vendor evaluation and management
  o Led Rev-Trac change management installation
  o Led interface and SSO development efforts
  o Supervised credit card processing and fax processing integration efforts (XIPay, Rightfax)
  o Led third party payroll and sales and use tax installation (BSI Tax Factory, Taxware)

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  Basis Lead Consultant

  Cox Ohio Publishing

  Jan 2002 - Jul 20027 months

  o ASAP project planning
  o Successful Implementation of SAP BW 2.1C and R/3 4.6 in HP / Oracle
  o IS-Media and HR Reconfigured client (HR PCC) for accelerated implementation
  o BSI Tax Factory installation, IDES training system

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  Senior BI Consultant

  SAP SI America, LLC.

  2001 - 20021 year

  SAP Basis and BI planning, mentoring and implementing for training and customer on site needs.

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  Technical Lead Consultant

  AMI Doduco

  May 2001 - Sep 20015 months

  o Technical project management for SAP BW 2.1C in Sun / Oracle environment
  o Supported multiple languages and continents

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  Senior BI Consultant

  Metamor Enterprise Solutions

  May 2000 - Apr 20011 year

  o Provided direction and advice to clients and other team members
  o Technical leadership on Business Intelligence projects for Antioch and Panasonic. (BW 2.0B on Windows 2000/SQL Server and AIX/Informix)
  o Change management on complex projects including First Customer Ship

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  Technical Lead Consultant

  Lincoln Electric

  Aug 1998 - Apr 20001 year 9 months

  o Trained and mentored team during high-pressure R/3 Y2K project
  o Led Basis automation efforts including BMC Patrol and Tivoli.
  o Heterogeneous database migration
  o Disaster recovery planning and preparation
  o Change management
  o R/3 and BW upgrade project planning

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  Consultant

  Riverwood International

  Aug 1996 - Feb 19981 year 7 months

  o Provided Legacy training, SAP JAVA/Internet GUI and SAP Security
  o Responsible for SAP R/3 Education, R/3 Landscape, HA Plan, training for support personnel
  o Installed SAP R/3 software, designed R/3 Landscape, and delivered Remedy ARS system
  o Chief software designer and project manager for multi-tiered custom Web reporting

Education

• Georgia Tech

  Georgia Tech

  Continuing EducationComputer Science

  1995 - 1996

• The Ohio State University

  The Ohio State University

  BSComputer and Information Science

  1988 - 1993

  Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Chi Alpha, Association for Computing Machinery, Concert Band, Marching Band

  Served Byrd Polar Research Center in Systems Administration.

Licenses & Certifications

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  CompTIA Security+ ce Certification

  CompTIA

  Issued Aug 2017 Expires Aug 2023

  Credential ID 123

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  PMP

  Project Management Institute

Recommendations received

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  Nelson Spessard, CRISC, CISA, CDPSE

  “Rob was professional and a joy to work with. I worked closely with him for several months on a system stabilization effort and his good mood and technical skills kept the project moving forward and sprits high.”

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  Mark Dorey

  “Robert was instrumental in helping GGI get SAP working from a technical perspective , a key player who was always prepared to help & advise as required on a Global basis.”

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